Tony Finch's link log

This page lists some recently popular links.

• 2010-07-19 RM2ZL 133 Your Facebook friends had better be real friends or you may lose access to your account.
• 2010-07-21 LVGB2 129 Examining the structure of TCP/IP headers with Lego.
• 2010-07-28 Z8YCY 97 Bookshelf porn.
• 2010-06-16 6W7G2 93 Rebooting the computer science academic publication process.
• 2010-07-19 LM6GR 72 Periodic table of visualization methods. (love the popups)
• 2010-07-26 HLFX7 70 The Gimli Glider - what happens when a Boeing 767 runs out of fuel in mid-flight.
• 2010-07-25 7JNF9 68 Cannabis and tobacco smoke are not equally carcinogenic.
• 2010-07-28 W56F5 61 CommunityDNS's press release on their CEO Paul Kane being a root zone recovery key share holder.
• 2010-07-27 9DZCL 56 Great informative rant about women in technology.
• 2010-07-19 DJ9NH 55 How the iPhone broke AT&T's network.
• 2010-07-27 BP7G7 53 The Times loses 90% of its readers after putting up its paywall.
• 2010-07-22 55X8Z 53 Israeli police torture Palestinians to improve their management stats.
• 2010-07-21 K8DM6 52 A Newport state of mind. (hilarious!)
• 2010-07-20 7D572 51 Will it Metablend? Recursively?
• 2010-07-28 WZ59J 50 "Metro" on Paul Kane being a root zone recovery key share holder.
• 2010-07-28 PFB2G 50 Bath University's press release on Paul Kane being a root zone recovery key share holder.
• 2010-07-19 Z7YHT 49 Periodic table of irrational nonsense.
• 2010-07-23 HLKJ2 49 Wayward Alzheimer's patients foiled by fake bus stop.
• 2010-07-25 H9LM6 49 "Open smartphone" is a lie.
• 2010-07-28 9ZYGG 49 How to meet interesting people in Cambridge.
• 2010-07-27 B9YHV 47 Vulnerability found in WPA2.
• 2010-07-20 KC5FX 45 Three scripts to check your technical writing style.
• 2010-07-21 98B79 43 The growing number of prosecutions in the USA for videoing the police.
• 2010-07-18 PYWJ6 42 CoffeeScript - alternate syntax for JavaScript.
• 2010-07-27 J8C6Z 42 BlueSniff: Eve meets Alice and Bluetooth.
• 2010-07-24 HT9R6 42 You have no free will but you are responsible for your actions.
• 2010-07-19 C6GFN 42 Sexism hurts men too.
• 2010-07-18 BZ52F 41 Gamma correction failure in picture scaling.
• 2010-07-23 LM6JB 39 Lesser-known but cool data structures.
• 2010-07-25 Z2D8V 38 George Monbiot on the CPS's decision not to prosecute for the death of Ian Tomlinson.
• 2010-07-26 7NFHK 38 The New Yorker on WikiLeaks and the war.
• 2010-07-28 VYNZ5 37 SAS vs World Programming: landmark UK case about copyright law and cloned software.
• 2010-07-25 7827H 37 Jack of Kent on the CPS's decision not to prosecute for the death of Ian Tomlinson.
• 2010-07-19 TC7P2 36 Pure-food worshippers put their health at risk - especially when they drink unpasteurized milk.
• 2010-07-18 86LGC 36 Kimbolton Fireworks.
• 2010-07-24 Z66FM 35 437 people harmed by homeopathy.
• 2010-07-26 KL6PN 35 Autojump: a cd command that learns.
• 2010-07-22 BP67H 35 World's first molten salt concentrating solar power plant.
• 2010-07-23 9DT7P 35 Speed cameras and accident statistics.
• 2010-07-23 VRGN9 34 Character amnesia - the increasing romanization of Chinese.
• 2010-07-28 8KGHX 34 Frink: a programming language that understands units of measure.
• 2010-07-21 9WZ95 33 Firefox 4 tabs-on-top fails to save vertical space. Why couldn't they copy the Safari 4 beta properly?
• 2010-07-24 VT5TB 32 The language we use affects the way we think.
• 2010-07-23 MPHW9 32 Objective measurements of the behaviour of drivers overtaking bicycles.
• 2010-07-25 MK7G5 32 Whitehall still trying to cover up Labour government's misdeeds.
• 2010-07-23 2HMTX 31 NY Times "opinionator" blog on the Dunning-Kruger effect - "incompetent and unaware of it".
• 2010-07-27 P8MCC 30 How secure is a Bluetooth keyboard against password sniffing?
• 2010-07-26 82JGX 30 Managing data storage at the south pole.
• 2010-07-23 RX5BZ 29 Cambridge Geek Night 4 - Tue 3rd Aug, 19:00 at the Union.
• 2010-07-18 R6DV7 29 Vibration-powered generator - an internal recharger for remote controls.
• 2010-07-26 JF29M 29 Tips and tricks for the Mac OS X command line.
• 2010-07-23 8TLVL 29 sshuttle - transparent proxy / vpn over ssh.
• 2010-07-20 Y6ZLL 28 Source code for MacPaint and QuickDraw (1984) - Computer History Museum.
• 2010-07-21 G2JNP 28 Abolishing university fees in Ireland did not improve access by students from poorer backgrounds.
• 2010-07-19 JF7WB 27 Iljitsch van Beijnum on DNSSEC in Ars Technica (including a link to YT).
• 2010-07-26 V7ZJ5 26 Threaded blocking IO vs. async event-driven IO in Java.
• 2010-07-20 NX7WT 26 Treventus ScanRobot automatic book scanner.
• 2010-07-19 GMR98 26 BookLiberator: a set of free software and hardware to digitize books.
• 2010-07-21 9JL9L 26 Columbus discovered the Americas and venereal syphilis.
• 2010-07-20 7JT2G 26 A Java implementation of the Lua Language.
• 2010-07-27 LP29Y 25 Where should a new TLD get its registry and DNS services from?
• 2010-07-22 7KWR2 23 A second look at SCons performance.
• 2010-07-27 FPFW2 22 Homemade scanning tunnelling electron microscope.
• 2010-07-22 KBX6R 21 Low vaccination rates lead to deaths from whooping cough in California.
• 2010-07-27 2JTXT 21 HyperMac - external batteries for Apple gear.
• 2010-07-19 2XM79 20 Stéphane Bortzmeyer on root DNSSEC, auto-translated from French (including a link to YT).
• 2010-07-28 MWCY8 19 The Guardian on Paul Kane being a root zone recovery key share holder.
• 2010-07-27 5P2CD 18 The .uk TLD is 25 years old.
• 2010-07-28 Y2WWY 17 Lua program analysis, in particular for editors.
• 2010-05-18 DX85Y 15 DNSSEC in the root zone delayed two weeks.
• 2010-07-16 DTGP6 15 The Daily Mail moral underground map.
• 2010-05-05 C9GVY 15 A new record for Apple - iPad fastest product to reach $1 billion revenue?
• 2010-07-17 H22FX 13 Amazing automated underground car park in Budapest.
• 2010-07-29 768GG 11 Node, scaling in the small vs in the large, events vs threads.
• 2010-07-16 MZ8F2 10 DNSviz: a DNS visualization tool.
• 2010-05-19 6MBFJ 10 Verisign to concentrate on DNS registry business after selling X.509 business to Symantec.
• 2010-04-23 628K9 10 The Independent fisks the Tory press.
• 2008-04-28 QHGYH 9 Rubik's cube can be solved in 25 moves or fewer (proved by Thomas Rokicki, also known for a hashlife implementation).
• 2010-07-08 M2HCZ 9 UK urban exploration forums.
• 2010-02-24 9TZ8V 9 Taking pictures of your own children is paedophilia according to the Bridges Shopping Centre in Sunderland.
• 2010-07-26 7K2MF 9 Celera's human genome trade secrets reduced research on affected genes by 30% despite their subsequent public domain release.
• 2010-03-02 7DMHX 9 Koreans use sausages to control their iPhones in cold weather, because gloved hands don't work.
• 2010-01-21 ZJD77 8 French anti-piracy organisation Hadopi uses a pirated font in its logo.
• 2010-04-19 T5D5Y 8 Amazing feats of error recovery by LLVM clang.
• 2010-02-19 HD7WB 8 How to configure BIND to automatically sign dynamic-update zones for DNSSEC.
• 2010-02-22 DWBW9 8 DNSSEC HOWTO
• 2010-03-05 DP5XV 8 There really is a liberal atheist intelligentsia.
• 2010-07-15 DH9H6 8 Hidden features of Python.
• 2010-03-01 9VTG2 8 California wages war against the great evil that is flavoured vodka.
• 2010-02-18 9LCVJ 8 Cambridge buses no longer so confident about when the misguided busway will open.
• 2010-02-23 7YVZM 8 Radio 4 - Analysis - Failing better - excellent programme about evidence-based policy.
• 2010-02-18 7GGZM 8 RFC 5782: DNS blacklists and whitelists.
• 2010-07-12 799H7 8 What happens when Twitter gets consumed by the Great Old Ones?
• 2010-07-08 75NG7 8 Petition to save the Silver Star unit.
• 2010-02-25 6ZC5G 8 The film companies keep telling you pirated DVDs are worse, hoping you won't find out they are better.
• 2008-09-03 4Q0R4 8 Alternative periodic tables.
• 2010-04-01 2L9RF 8 It's not a bug, it's a feature!
• 2010-03-02 ZBBV6 7 A neutral collaboration point for everyone involved in "Teaching Open Source".
• 2010-03-01 Z2V52 7 ENISA's guide to deploying DNSSEC.
• 2010-03-03 XYLC8 7 DNSSEC deployment is on track, says Verisign.

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